Anger
This week, watching what has unfolded in New Orleans, I've felt such overwhelming anger. I know I'm not alone in that. I had to stop watching TV news a few days ago; I just couldn't watch anymore. It's not just watching people suffer, it's watching people suffer because of utter stupidity and incompetence that's doing me in.
This is what we get with an MBA President? It's one thing that I disagree with this administration on almost every substantive issue, but it's another to watch them destroy my country with their complete incompetence. As Casey Stengel once lamented, can't anyone here play this game?
Maybe that's the problem; it's only a game to them. It's only about power, not governing. It's about reaching and hanging onto power, so you can suck money out of the system. What we've seen this week is banana republic-level incompetence; normally, you'd have to have massive corruption to achieve this level of ineptitude. Maybe that's what we have; Michael Brown sure didn't get his job based on his sterling credentials in emergency response.
I'm angry because I hear my President claim that no one anticipated the levees being breached. I hear the head of Homeland Security claim that the problem is we had two disasters together, like flooding is something unusual after a hurricane. And can we change the name of that department now? From the moment I heard that name, I hated it; it has always conjured up an image of Nazi Germany for me. Now it's just an oxymoron.
I'm really angry because I don't know what to do about any of it. Bush will be president for three more years. The Republicans will control Congress for at least another year. I've donated money to the Red Cross. I've prayed. I've donated money to the Democrats, not because I think they have all the answers, but they're the best alternative I have. I've voted, and I'm represented in Congress by a Democratic congressman and two Democratic Senators, as well as a Democratic governor. None of that is enough; we're still spending billions for a war we can't win, and can't even say what winning is, and we can't even rescue our own citizens in a disaster we knew was coming.
There's a saying: first rate people hire first rate people, while second rate people hire third rate people. We've seen the hiring of this administration, and I think the verdict is pretty clear. Now they get to pick two Supreme Court Justices.
I'm angry. And I don't know what to do.
This is what we get with an MBA President? It's one thing that I disagree with this administration on almost every substantive issue, but it's another to watch them destroy my country with their complete incompetence. As Casey Stengel once lamented, can't anyone here play this game?
Maybe that's the problem; it's only a game to them. It's only about power, not governing. It's about reaching and hanging onto power, so you can suck money out of the system. What we've seen this week is banana republic-level incompetence; normally, you'd have to have massive corruption to achieve this level of ineptitude. Maybe that's what we have; Michael Brown sure didn't get his job based on his sterling credentials in emergency response.
I'm angry because I hear my President claim that no one anticipated the levees being breached. I hear the head of Homeland Security claim that the problem is we had two disasters together, like flooding is something unusual after a hurricane. And can we change the name of that department now? From the moment I heard that name, I hated it; it has always conjured up an image of Nazi Germany for me. Now it's just an oxymoron.
I'm really angry because I don't know what to do about any of it. Bush will be president for three more years. The Republicans will control Congress for at least another year. I've donated money to the Red Cross. I've prayed. I've donated money to the Democrats, not because I think they have all the answers, but they're the best alternative I have. I've voted, and I'm represented in Congress by a Democratic congressman and two Democratic Senators, as well as a Democratic governor. None of that is enough; we're still spending billions for a war we can't win, and can't even say what winning is, and we can't even rescue our own citizens in a disaster we knew was coming.
There's a saying: first rate people hire first rate people, while second rate people hire third rate people. We've seen the hiring of this administration, and I think the verdict is pretty clear. Now they get to pick two Supreme Court Justices.
I'm angry. And I don't know what to do.
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